Expense tracking app/program (lemmy.world)

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I am interested what do you use for tracking your expenses and other things like income, lending, investing, ...

All apps i tried don't have a lot of features or those features are buggy (or they at least seem so).

Have you found some app that does all that you want or do you use spreadsheets or some other solution?

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[-] lasta@piefed.world 4 points 1 month ago

For a while I was tracking my expenses in a LibreOffice Calc sheet since they are not complex, but I heard positive things about these two from other users:

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I've tried these as well, the software is good. My only issue is it's very manual and the ways to automate importing transaction information i found complicated. That was a little while back now though.

Importing csv files from my bank accounts also required a bit more effort than I wanted to spend to fix the data.

It's unfortunate, I use simplifi from quicken, but they jacked up their price a lot, so I let it cancel, they offered a "deal" to get another year for the old price, and that's going to end soon. But the importing of my transactions is automatic when I sign in, so I only need to check a few things and then I've got all the graphs and whatnot to see where I'm spending.

I'll probably let that cancel and try these again, or just not track spending like this.